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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Peddling a pig in a poke - that is incredible. Fianna Fáil supported the Aontú Bill in opposition and then went against it in government. One could not get a better definition of that turn of phrase than that. If the Minister wants examples of where the Government is letting down farmers, he should look at the Brexit adjustment reserve fund. Aontú found out that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The trips produced 180 tonnes of CO2emissions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the Brexit adjustment reserve fund?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the just transition fund?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to encourage young people into the agricultural sector. [17709/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important that we inject some reality into this debate today. The Government's policy towards agriculture is one of managed decline. That is the truth.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Every year, there are more farmers leaving the farming sector than there were the year before. Only 5% of farmers are aged 35 or under. This is an incredibly small cohort of people. The Minister must know that there is an explosion of anger in rural Ireland about the approach of the Fianna Fáil-Green Party-Fine Gael Government towards agriculture. What is the Government doing to get...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The farmer’s life cycle is dependent on the price of the product and the cost of producing it. That is the most important factor in this whole process. Every grant the Government gives does not make up for the fact that every year, farmers are getting less and less from the supply chain in farming. Most of the profit ends with the factory or supermarket. The Government is refusing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has sought to ascertain the reason there has been a 26% increase in abortions undertaken in Ireland in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17710/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 68. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to reduce the CAMHS waiting list. [17711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mental Health Policy (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to studies showing that Government policies to tackle climate change are causing a mental health crisis among farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17708/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average wait time for driving tests category B, in each test centre in the State. [18711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a process of geographical prioritisation for persons waiting for driving tests in category B, for example, those resident in the county where they are seeking a test versus those resident in another county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18712/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will furnish a list of driving test centres which have opened in the State in each of the past ten years; and if he will provide a list of those which have closed within the same period. [18713/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current longest length of time anyone has been left waiting for a driving test category B, in each test centre in the country, in tabular form. [18714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) can expect to sit their driving test, which they applied for in February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (20 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 212. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a person (details supplied) will receive a determination on their application for a critical skills employment permit; and if it might be possible to speed up the process given the exceptional circumstances in this case. [18758/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: He had a good chance of winning the competition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This has been a botched secondment in reality. It has not worked out in any fashion or which anybody could have designed. It has been a disaster in many ways. A lot of the facts around it, to be honest, many people find very hard to believe. This was the highest profile public servant in the State at the time. Dr. Tony Holohan was a household name known by children across the land....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Did you tell the report author that Martin Fraser told you that he told-----